Improved spool-show-case



tnited CSi-Mw @me einem JOHN N. LEONARD, OF ROCKVILL, CON/NEOTICUT:v

Lem-8 Patent-VNO. 92,618, zaad .hay 13, 1869.

IMPROVED SPOOL-SHOW-CASE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent end inakug part of thesame.

full `and exact description thereof', enabling othersA skilled in theart to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is aven-tical section through the line a;x; lFigure 2, a perspectiveview; and

Figure 3, section through line z z.

Construction.

, A is a revolving spool-,iike' beam, consisting of a pair ofdisk-wheels, rigidly attached, one at each end of an enlarged shaft,through which isl passed and fastened a smaller shaft, B, which extendsthrough the heads C and D, to wheel or lever E, ati'ording there a meansof operating A,

F F` are the trays, which arcvdesigned to hold the goods for display,which are suspended, (at each end,`) at their upper vextremity,`by meansof aneye, which fits loosely over a stationary pin, H, on the innerface, and near the outer edge of the disk-wheels.

By't-his means, the yrotation of A does n'ot upset the trays F, (whichare necessarilynarrow, to show as much ofthe goods that are upon them aspossible.) but allows them, by their own gravity, to remain at all timesthe same side up.

The base, G, is provided with drawers,.ior the accommodation of sucharticles as could not be convencylinder-form, provided at the top with arevolving cover, J, which oscillates upon the shaft B, by means of itsheads C C and shaft K, which fits over shaft B, and extends througheither head, D D, and through one head D far enough to admit of wheel L,by which means the' cover AJ may be thrown open olshut at pleasure.

The size of the apparatus, and number of trays employed, dependaltogether on the amount of diiereut stylesof goods to be displayed,heads D D affording bearing forshaft K, (through which passes androtates shaft 13,) besides closing both ends of case I, so

that it has but one opening, which is at J'.

l Operatiom By means of hand-wheel L, cover J is thrown back, (opencd,)exposing the trays, with goods which happen to be at the upper portionof the disk-wheel. It' the desired color or style does not make itsappearance at that point, beam A is revolved by means of wheel. E,bringing each and every tray, and its conteo ts', to the point ofobservation, after which' cover J is thrown forward (closed) by the samemeans as opened, protecting its contents from the circulating ofair,1ight, dust, 811e. v

Claim. WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States, is-

The suspended trays F, in combination with revolv-V ing beam A, cover J,and hollow shaft K, operated and arranged substantially as described.

J'.N. LEONARD.

Witnesses ROBERT M. Ferns, Guns. F. LooKnAnr.

